Cellular Field Design Engineer

APPLE SOUTH ASIA PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company in Singapore is seeking a highly motivated Field Design Engineer to evaluate the latest Apple hardware systems, including iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch. The successful candidate will be responsible for conducting hands-on tests and performing detailed analysis to troubleshoot wireless performance issues. Ideally, candidates will have a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering with at least 15 years of experience in cellular technologies testing. This role demands excellent communication and analytical skills, with opportunities to travel locally and internationally.

Qualifications

• 15 years of relevant work experience in testing.
• Experience with end to end testing and log analysis.
• Knowledge of at least one of the wireless technology: 5G NR, LTE/LTE-A.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch hardware systems.
• Perform deep dive analysis into internal logs.
• Run experiments related to RF/OTA performance and validation.

Skills

Hands-on testing of cellular technologies

Good communication skills

Analytical skills

Detailed oriented

Ability to work independently

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering

Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering

Tools

Shell scripting

Python scripting

Matlab

Job description

Summary

At Apple, new ideas have a way of becoming products, services, and customer experiences very quickly. Do you want to impact millions of users by developing an extra‑ordinary product with a prime focus on accuracy, understandability and performance of the product? We are the Apple Field Design Engineering team, and we are seeking a highly motivated and technical individual to work on testing unreleased Apple products. You will be responsible for evaluating the latest iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch hardware systems, in the field, from early prototype to final products, on different network and wireless technologies, including performance metrics creation/evolution, post processing and analysis of device logs from the field. Come join our team and become part of a hands‑on team that fosters engineering excellence, creativity and innovation. We are a team of multifaceted, encouraging people and innovative technologies are the norm here. Bring passion and dedication to your job and there's no telling what you could accomplish, imagine what you could do here.

Description

A Field Design Engineer will be involved in evaluating the latest iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch HW/SW systems in the field from early prototype to final products. This includes very early evaluations of our prototypes and HW systems on different wireless technologies, including performance metrics creation/evolution, post processing and analysis of trace log from the field. It also includes running focused experiments in relationship to RF/OTA performance, acoustics, thermals, GPS and NFC validation, etc. The successful candidate will be working with the HW/SW development teams and other cross functional teams on identifying issues impacting the wireless performance. You will perform deep dive analysis into internal logs to understand and identify root cause of any HW/System issue.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent major with 15 years relevant work experience
• Hands‑on experience with end to end testing of cellular technologies that includes test plan preparation, field testing, log analysis & debugging UE issues
• Working knowledge in at least one of the wireless technology 5G NR, LTE/LTE‑A, UMTS
• You have experience owning a complete functional area of an application or product with clear communication across multiple levels in the organization
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, detailed oriented, analytical, able to work independently
• Able to travel locally and internationally

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering or equivalent major
• Deep understanding of cellular protocol stack from LTE PHY/MAC to higher layers, Call processing
• Hardworking and ambitious, able to take on obstacles in innovative ways
• Knowledge of Antenna/ RF design
• Basic scripting experience (Shell/Perl/Python/Matlab)